Hi Frank,
They will, although in some sense I am the wrong person to ask this question as it
will be up to the people developing and packaging these DE's just like it is now.
The difference from today here though will be that there will be some requirements for
being available
for the workstation as the PRD states. The main one here that I foresee is that you
can't conflict in
terms of library requirements or binary names with the standard desktop of the
workstation. I don't think
that has been a big problem historically so it will likely have minimal impact, but it is
now going to
be a formal requirement as the PRD currently stands.
I expect there will be other requirements defined too, but I want to make it clear that
the goals of
these requirements is not to make it impossible or even hard to package alternative DEs
for the workstation.
But what it will mean is that for instance it will be 100% clear that the responsibility
to stay available rests on the
alternative DEs packagers and developers and not on the core product developers. Of course
with this also comes extra
responsibility of the Workstation working group to ensure that development plans are
shared as early as possible, to give
everyone a chance to port over in time (ref. the recent Bluez discussion).
But it all comes back to what I mentioned in an earlier email. The 3 products is a attempt
at moving from primarily packaging
upstream projects, to having concrete independent development targets for each product and
to have engineers work on those
independently of upstream priorities. So in some sense when people install alternative DEs
that will to some degree mean that
they are no longer using the Workstation as at least a subset of the features developed
and announced as the big new features of a given
release will not be available simply because they where features implemented or bugs fixed
in the primary desktop. That is of course not
specific to the Workstation product.
Christian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Murphy" <frankly3d(a)gmail.com>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 4:16:58 AM
Subject: Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:24:20 -0400
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <cschalle(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Will the other DE's still exist after "workstation"
Will a dev be able to use Xfce, Lxde as graphical choice.
What would encourage say an xubuntu dev //* devs are still users */
working on foo, to switch to "Fedora Workstation"?
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Regards,
Frank
www.frankly3d.com
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